A leading education researcher supports calls for schools to embrace the Ka Hikitea Maori strategy.
Maori education deputy secretary Apryll Parata says the strategy, along with national standards, is part of a tool kit that schools should be using to lift Maori achievement.
Professor Stuart McNaughton from the Woolf Fisher Education Research Centre at Auckland University says his team has been studying the strategy and it helps raise achievement levels.
Of critical importance, he says, is the way it reinforces Maori succeeding as Maori.
He told Waatea News that internationally there is huge amount of interest in the curriculum and "we could be a world leader, if we get it right".
Professor McNaughton said schools need help to analyse the mass of data they get about their students, so they can understand which programmes or interventions best suit their students.
